Analysis
Thursday, June 29th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
Rachel Gilmore Global News, June 13, 2022 “People live in Djerba, there are Jews here, and they go out into the souk with the kippa on their heads. It doesn’t bother anyone. There are no comments. It’s totally normal.” Djerba’s historic El Ghriba synagogue is nestled on a small island off the coast of Tunisia, […]
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Simon Speakman Cordall Foreign Policy, June 2, 2023 “[Saied] deals in a very utopian vision. Anything that contradicts that—such as anti-Semitism or the recent attacks on the country’s undocumented black migrants—has to be rejected and denied.” Tunisia has largely moved on from the May 9 killing of five people at the El Ghriba synagogue on the […]
Daniel Brumberg Arab Center Washington, DC, June 22, 2023 “While unhappy with Saied’s clampdown, many professionals and business leaders are not ready to come out en masse to back the protesters.” If this author has drawn one conclusion from his recent trip to Tunisia it is that rekindling the country’s democracy will require a […]
Simon Marks and Stephanie Baker Bloomberg, June 27, 2023 “If the relationship between the Russian government and Wagner is broken, it means that their relationship in CAR and Mali is also broken,” said Kessy Martin Ekomo Soignet, who heads Peace and Development Watch, a Bangui-based think tank. “What is happening is destroying the narrative” that […]
Foreign Affairs, June 24, 2023 “… look at his pithy and pointed vocabulary, his cadences, his ability to assume the role of tough guy, heart-on-the-sleeve Russian patriot, the truth teller who calls out the opportunists, the morons, and the thieves Putin has appointed.” Stephen Kotkin is a preeminent historian of Russia and the author […]
Jim Geraghty National Review, June 28, 2023 “Brutal Maniac, Working with Other Brutal Maniac, Fails to Depose Chief Brutal Maniac.” An Unprepared Putin Many aspects of this weekend’s short-lived coup attempt in Russia remain mysterious, but the Wall Street Journal’s Bojan Pancevski, the paper’s Germany correspondent, sheds a little light on what Yevgeny Prigozhin wanted to […]
Bill Gertz Washington Times, June 26, 2023 “Chinese state-controlled outlets revealed divergent views on the uprising as countries around the world struggled to make sense of the weekend’s chaos and Mr. Putin‘s hold on power.” China‘s leadership is closely watching recent events in Russia, concerned that a similar military revolt may erupt in Beijing, a senior White […]
Tuesday, June 27th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
Yaroslav Trofimov WSJ, June 26, 2023 “… none of the key players in the power struggle—beginning when Prigozhin seized the southern city of Rostov Saturday—has been strengthened by the ordeal that brought the country to the edge of civil war.” A day after Wagner’s mutiny showed the unexpected fragility of President Vladimir Putin’s regime, all the main players in […]
Sergey Radchenko The Spectator, June 24, 2023 “Russia is in a state of a deep crisis, unlike anything it has experienced since 1991.” Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, has taken control of the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, the headquarters of the Southern Miliary District, in the most serious […]
Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, June 25, 2023 “Such military aid could include new cyber weapons, the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system, new advanced Russian aircraft or even advances in the nuclear weapons field.” For the moment, the world-shaking potential coup by the Russian Wagner Group against Russian President Vladimir Putin has ended. Putting aside whether Wagner […]
Aris Roussinos UnHerd, June 26, 2023 “The tensions Putin had permitted to escalate within his war cabinet — whether as intentional policy or sheer incompetence must remain a matter of speculation — now looked to be spiralling out of control.” Waking up on Saturday morning, Putin must have wished he’d kept catering in-house. Only the day before, […]
Friday, June 23rd 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
Matthew Kassel Jewish Insider, June 1, 2023 “KC Johnson, a professor of American history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, believes the strategy “left unresolved” whether Biden officials are “willing to confront hardline critics of Israel whose words or actions stray into antisemitism.” The administration now has “an example of this,” Johnson told […]
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